Michael Clark Hutchison

Michael Clark Hutchison (born February 26, 1914 in Edinburgh , † March 21, 1993 in Pangbourne ) was a British politician.

Life

Hutchison was born in Edinburgh in 1914 as the son of the politician George Aitken Clark Hutchison . His brother is the politician Ian Clark Hutchison . Hutchison studied law and was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1937 . In the same year he was admitted to the bar and married Anne Taylor . The couple fathered two children, a son and a daughter. At the beginning of the Second World War , Hutchison worked for a shipping company in Australia. He went to the military and fought in the Australian units in North Africa and later against Japan. Hutchison left the military with the rank of major and joined the British colonial forces. Here he was deployed in Palestine (1946 to 1948) and the Aden colony (1949 to 1955), among others . In 1955 he retired from the military to pursue his political career.

Political career

For the first time Hutchison appeared in the general election in 1955 to elections at the national level. For the Unionist Party , he ran for the mandate of the constituency of Motherwell . However, Hutchison could not prevail against the Labor candidate George Lawson and missed the entry into the British House of Commons . After the death of his party colleague William Darling in 1957, Hutchison ran for the by-elections in his constituency of Edinburgh South . Despite massive loss of votes, he prevailed against the Labor and Liberal Party candidates and entered the British Parliament for the first time. He held his mandate in the following general election in 1959 , 1964 , 1966 , 1970 and in February and October 1974 . In the 1979 general election , Hutchison did not run and left the House of Commons. Hutchison has served as Parliamentary Private Secretary several times in Parliament .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Obituary for Michael Clark Hutchison: Tam Dalyell, in: The Independent, March 24, 1993.
2. ^ The Scotsman: Sir Ian Clark Hutchison , Feb. 13, 2002
3. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1955 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ The Yearbook for Scotland 1967, p. 121.
5. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1959 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Results of the 1964 general election ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Results of the 1966 general election ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Results of the 1970 lower house elections ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Results of the February 1974 general election ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in October 1974 ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Michael Clark Hutchison at Hansard (English)